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...satire Myra Breckinridge, escaping unscathed and, for the most part, unnoticed. Until she was signed in 1976 for the ABC series Charlie's Angels, Fawcett was most visible as an icon of TV commercials: she made the Mercury Cougar pant and gave extra body to Wella Balsam shampoo. For Ultra-Brite Toothpaste, her smiling mouth was the ideal 24-hour product placement...
...York Post • evident sense of that the circumstances of David Carradine's death were insufficiently humiliating prompts revelation by that, in addition to his fatal affinity for ultra-kinky sex, he was a lousy tipper...
When Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunication of four bishops from an ultra-conservative movement in January, even his admirers worried that he was taking the proverbial lid off Pandora's box. The group known as the Society of St. Pius X had, after all, operated a separate ministry since 1988, when its founder, the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, ordained his own bishops in open defiance of Pope John Paul II. Two decades of schism were bound to feed both unorthodox ideas and an autonomous chain of authority...
...Acer these days, R&D is focused on reducing sticker shock. In May, for example, Acer launched new line of ultra-thin notebooks that can run for more than eight hours without recharging yet cost as little as $699. Wang claims these full-featured machines are unique in the market, and that it will take six to nine months for his competition to catch up. "It's not just low price," Wang says. "There is innovation in the product as well." Acer is entering the cell-phone business, and Wang makes no excuses for churning out low-margin netbooks, considered...
...opposed to previous U.S. Administrations that barked but never bit on that subject - the right has been worried that Netanyahu might cave. In fact, Netanyahu left himself familiar wiggle room on settlements too, saying the Israeli government would freeze settlements but allow room for natural growth (translation: ultra-religious families of eight should not feel the need to restrain their rate of reproduction...